Get to know David Wallace Wilson
David Wilson is a partner in our Private Clients practice in Geneva. He advises private clients, trustees, banks, and family offices on Swiss and international wealth planning, matrimonial law and succession, trusts, private trust companies and other succession vehicles. His additional areas of expertise include anti-money laundering and art law.
David Wallace Wilson studied at the University of Geneva (law degree 1998), holds a Master of Laws in Comparative Jurisprudence from New York University (M.C.J. 2000), and further qualified as a Trust and Estate Practitioner (TEP 2003). He is the Swiss contributor to the Glasson’s reference work «International Trust Laws» and the editor of www.trusts.ch, the only website dedicated to trusts in Switzerland.
Since 2004, David Wallace Wilson serves as an officer on the Suisse-Romande committee of the Society of Trust and Estate Practitioners (STEP) and on the scientific committee of the Swiss Advanced Certificate in Trust Management (SACTM). Moreover, he publishes and lectures extensively, including for the Certif icate in Compliance Management and the Economic Crime Institute. He has given conferences/seminars for STEP, the Offshore Tax Planning Conference, the Federal Attorney General, the Geneva Bar Association, the British Swiss Chamber of Commerce, the American International Club, several universities and notary public associations, on such topics as international estate administration, tax forfait/lump-sum agreement, relocating to Switzerland, trust disputes, taxation of trusts, holding Swiss property in trust, family governance, charities, anti-money regulations, and compliance in the art trade.